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Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /
Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons / by the late Reverend Tho. Manton ...
London printed : s.n., 1685
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
II. That in this present state we are not able to bear any extraordinary manifestation of his Greatness and Majesty.
1. Because of his Glory, which would consume and swallow us up. This was a Voice from the excellent Glory, 2 Pet. 1. 17. Now if this excellent Glory by the Veil of the Firmament were not obscured, man were not able to bear it, Job 37. 20. If man speak, he shall be swallowed up. 1 Tim. 6. 16. He dwelleth in light which no man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen, nor can see, till we are received to Heaven. Thus it is, his Glory would kill us, his Voice confound us. There is a mighty disproportion between Mortal Creatures, and the infinite Majesty of God; the brightness of his Glory soon burdeneth, and over-burdeneth the infirmity of the best Creatures.
1. Because of his Glory, which would consume and swallow us up. This was a Voice from the excellent Glory, 2 Pet. 1. 17. Now if this excellent Glory by the Vail of the Firmament were not obscured, man were not able to bear it, Iob 37. 20. If man speak, he shall be swallowed up. 1 Tim. 6. 16. He dwelleth in light which no man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen, nor can see, till we are received to Heaven. Thus it is, his Glory would kill us, his Voice confound us. There is a mighty disproportion between Mortal Creatures, and the infinite Majesty of God; the brightness of his Glory soon burdeneth, and over-burdeneth the infirmity of the best Creatures.